Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition 271 pages This collection of Ivor Gurney's war letters serves as an essential companion to his work, a portrait of the tragic disintergration of a complex man and the world around him. View more info

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Unpaginated [240 pp] View more info

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Covered in clear adhesive film by previous owner. Book is faded at spine and upper edge. Some mild tanning to prelims. Illustrated with sepia-toned and black & white cartoons. 160 pages A selection of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather's famous World War One cartoons. View more info

Very Good+ condition. A little rubbing to lower rear edge from earlier removal of price label. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs, Drawings and Maps. x, 389 pages With a main focus on the Australian experiences, this book provides a wide selection of documents and photographs with explanatory text and enquiry based questions. View more info

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and Plates. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 400 pages Close to 35,000 South Australians enlisted for service overseas during the Great War. Around 5500 never came back. Countless more returned with physical and psychological injuries that would affect them for the r... View more info

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with black & white photographs. 306 pages For the first time, the Gallipoli story is told in the words of the ordinary soldier fighting in the trenches. Day by day, starting with the landing on the 25 April 1915, right up to the last day on 20 December 1915, the world of the Gallipoli soldier is starkly revealed. View more info

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cmx24cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Black & white illustrations. 170 pages A collection of the work of contemporary illustrators that provides the clearest and most dramatic impressions of the hardship, deprivation and sheer terror faced by troops on all sides in WW1. View more info

Very Good+ condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 214 pages A forceful and probing analysis of the British generals' leadership. Dr Laffin maintains that such an analysis is well overdue. A controversial and uncompromising book. View more info

Publisher:
Canberra, The Australian War Memorial and Australian Government Publishing Service: 1971

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: ID223007

ISBN: 0642000026

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy- but with some light edgewear to dustjacket. x, 187 pages View more info

MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 270 pages The opportunity to buy raki was one of the many surprises in store for the Australian prisoners of war captured at Gallipoli. This book follows the experiences of the sixty-seven captured Australians, who are identified here for the first time. Their stories are told through historical sources from Australian, British and Turkish archives. The cultural and social life that developed in some camps... View more info

Octavo Size. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 128 pages Brian Lawrence arrived in France midway through the battle of the Somme in 1916 and saw two years action with the Grenadier Guards before sustaining a serious wound. These letters provide insight into the daily life of an officer during World War One. View more info

Small Octavo Size. Mint - a new copy. Cloth spine, matt cream laminated paper boards. Battalion statistics, nominal roll, honours and awards with citations. Five black and white plates [incl frontis], Four maps. Limited to 400 numbered copies. 132 pages Originally published in 1924, this is handsomely reproduced facsimile of an important "unit history" of the first World War. View more info

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. x, 197 pages One of the first of the women 'medicals' to graduate from Melbourne University, Mary De Garis was a pioneering doctor in the early 20th century. Of an established Mildura family, she practised in the Outback before serving in World War One as a doctor in Serbia. After the War she settled in Geelong where, beloved by generations of women, she was the city'... View more info